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Probe into 900 people orgy
The Japanese government will investigate reports hundreds of Japanese tourists took part in a sex orgy in a Chinese hotel that stoked anti-Japanese sentiment in China, Japan's top government spokesman has said.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda told reporters the foreign ministry would question employees of a Japanese company who were reported to have taken part in the incident at a five-star hotel in the southern city of Zhuhai last month.
According to Chinese media, about 400 Japanese tourists and 500 local prostitutes were involved in the orgy.
Chinese officials have detained suspects and closed the hotel in the coastal city in Guangdong Province.
The reports sparked fury in China, especially on the Internet, as the incident was said to have ended on September 18 - the 72nd anniversary of Japan's occupation of China's northeast.
Fukuda said the Guangdong government told the Japanese government on Sunday it had confirmed the orgy had taken place but did not provide further details. "If it took place, then it is truly regrettable," he said.
A spokesman for a construction company in western Japan whose workers were reported to have been most involved in the incident acknowledged that some employees were at the hotel at the time but denied there had been an orgy.
"Our employees did not take part in any organised prostitution," the official said.
Despite closer ties in trade and tourism, and signs of growing diplomatic solidarity in the face of the North Korean nuclear crisis, antagonism towards Japan is never far below the surface in China, which suffered about 14 years of often-brutal Japanese occupation.
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